A recent study demonstrates that concurrent flexible sigmoidoscopy in conjunction with CT colonography (CTC) does not improve the diagnostic yield for left-sided colorectal neoplasia compared with ...

What to Expect in a Sigmoidoscopy Usually, preparing for a sigmoidoscopy is relatively quick and easy and involves just an enema or two that will need to be taken any time from the night before to ...

News & Views Published: August 2010 Screening Screening flexible sigmoidoscopy effective in a UK RCT Douglas K. Rex Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology 7, 423–424 (2010) Cite this article ...

A sigmoidoscopy is a procedure that lets your doctor look inside your sigmoid colon. Similar to a colonoscopy, it uses a flexible tube, a small camera, and a light and helps diagnose conditions ...

Flexible sigmoidoscopy can also be used to screening people for rectal cancers or cancers in sigmoid. A number of other tests are also available; the details of these could be accessed at the link ...

A sigmoidoscopy can detect colon cancer, but only if the cancer is in the lower part of the colon. A full colonoscopy is the best screening method for detecting cancer throughout the entire colon.

Flexible sigmoidoscopy is a test that a doctor uses to check the inner lining of your rectum and the lower part of your colon. You may get this test if you have certain gut problems, such as ...

Sigmoidoscopy is less invasive than colonoscopy -- but not widely used for CRC screening in the U.S. -- since it is limited to the rectum, sigmoid colon, and descending colon. It takes less time ...

We estimated diagnostic performance of sigmoidoscopy using 12 different referral criteria in detecting colorectal cancer and advanced adenomas. Colonoscopy results from 14,947 participants of ...

Flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS) is a medical technique that allows for the visualization of the lining of the gut, specifically the rectum and a part of the colon (up to approximately 60 cm). It is ...

Flexible sigmoidoscopy A flexible sigmoidoscopy is a test to look inside the lower part of your large bowel. A specialist doctor or nurse (endoscopist) uses a flexible sigmoidoscope for this test.